Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 7/6/05, John Williams <jwilliams business otago ac nz> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 21:37 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > [Back to marketing-list only]
> >
> > On 7/6/05, Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> > > <quote who="John Williams">
> > >
> > > > Whose toes would we be stepping on if we pushed this "Friends of GNOME"
> > > > thing?
> > >
> > > The FoG "brand" is currently used for the Foundation's end-user focused
> > > fundraising efforts, so we'd have to convince the board that having a non
> > > paying level of FoGness wouldn't detract. If not, we can always come up with
> > > a new brand.
> >
> > Given our... hrm, at best 'inefficient' use of the FOG brand ATM, I
> > can't imagine this would be a huge issue, but that's just me speaking
> > personally.
>
> Who actually knows about this? Whose idea was it? Who can actually
> okay us going ahead? (Because I would like to do this really soon!)

Board and Tim would have to give the OK.[1] So if you write up exactly
what you want to do, and send it to board-list gnome org, we can put
it on the agenda for our meeting a week from today.

Luis

[1] Long-term, I'd like FOG to be run by a larger/separate committee,
like marketing-private,  (because it's silly to have this purely on
the executive director's plate) but this is where we are right now.